Find the Missing Side Using the Pythagorean Theorem Word Problem

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• 36

• 76.8

• 12

• 40

Find the length of the missing side. 

• 20 in.

• 68 in.

• 16 in.

• 80 in.

Find the length of the missing side. 

• 17 cm

• 22 cm

• 15 cm

• 13 cm

Best buy is advertising a desktop monitor as 20 inches (diagonal length of the screen). If the screen is 12 inches high, what is the width of the screen? Round to the nearest tenth if necessary.

• 16 inches

• 8 inches

• 14 inches

• 18 inches

Best buy is advertising a desktop monitor as 20 inches (diagonal length of the screen). If the screen is 12 inches high, what is the width of the screen? Round to the nearest tenth if necessary. (hint: we are looking for "a or b")

• 16 inches

• 8 inches

• 14 inches

• 18 inches

In a computer catalog, a computer monitor is listed as being 27 inches. This distance is the diagonal distance across the screen. If the screen measures 15 inches in height, what is the actual width of the screen to the nearest inch? 

• 22 in

• 23 in

• 24 in

• 25 in

Find the length of the missing side.

• 25 cm

• 42 cm

• 52 cm

• 48 cm

Find the length of the missing side

• 48

• 108

• 83.6

• 72

Find the diagonal length

• 9.2 in

• 11 in

• 13 in

• 9.6 in